Third Thursday VetChats
VetChat
Upcoming VetChats
Third Thursday VetChats are Free and Open to the Public
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Past VetChats
February 16, 5:30 p.m. | U.S. Marine Corps. Reservist Art Beltrone, a historian of military artifacts with more than sixty years of experience, will visit the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial & Museum and Vietnam Museum for a conversation with Interim Museum Director and Curator of Collections and Interpretation Mike Thornton.
Bill is a member of the VFW, Vietnam Veterans of America, the First Cavalry Division Assn., the 7th Cavalry Assn., the 5th Bn. 7 Cav. Assn. and the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial & Museum. He enjoys volunteering at the Memorial and Vietnam Museum to ensure that today’s younger generation supplements their classroom learning and hear from veterans who actually experienced the Vietnam Era and War.
JJ belongs to the1st Cav and the 1/7 th Cav Association. JJ says that he “enjoys volunteering at the Memorial and the Education Center because it teaches the kids about first hand experiences in the war, and we must never forget about those 1564 names on the wall that served their country with such HONOR.”
Since January 2003 he volunteers as tour guide for school field-trips and other organized tours of the NJ Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial and the Vietnam Museum & Educational Center. From 2009 to 2012 he served as a Trustee of the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial & Museum, Inc.